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days or not going at all. compassionate. those compassionate impulses don't seem to extend to roger stone one of the president's oldest vorsz. lying during mueller russia investigation. in the end mueller couldn't find collusion but stonel got up to 9 years in prison. good says official washington. he is annoying and, worse, he is close to trump. let him die there. >> he is trying to protect roger stone for lying under oath, for witness tampering, for trying to cover up trump's connections with russia. and this is really banana republic stuff. >> this isn't jaywalking. it was seven felonies. >> it is outrageous, i hope people are infuriated by this. >> the reason they are doing it is slimy, sleazy, dirty,. >> roger stone is somebody i hold in minimum high esteem. so i was not unhappy to see him get 7 to 9.

>> tucker: now, that last person you may recognize if you are of a certain age john dean. dean led the watergate cover-up for months made hush payments to the burglars. destroyed evidence to keep investigators for finding it. how much months did he serve for that four months. is he not roger stone. he didn't get nine years. andy mccabe isn't roger stone either. he won't even serve that nothing at all. pretty remarkable if you think about it. as fbi official andy mccabe authorized illegal leaks to the press and lied to investigators about doing it. mccabe was fired from his job from that as he should have been. today prosecutors announced they will not bring any criminal charges against him for committing what were obviously crimes. over at cnn, they celebrated the news. >> look, many observers looked at this investigation and they believed it to not have merit. to your point, that it doesn't have merit, obviously you are not a completely objective party in that right? i just want to put that out there that there are a lot

of observers, independent observers who looked at this and says this doesn't make sense. >> tucker: well, other corrupt former fbi officials were thrilled by the news, too. lisa page, who spent months texting her boyfriend peter strzok about how to stop donald trump, not her job by the way as a federal employee, tweeted this: cheers, andy. with a photography of herself holding a glass of wine. in other words, hey, america, up yours. but mccabe was the one man on the left today that didn't seem happy about the news. believe it or not. he is not grateful that he just dodged an indictment. instead, he says he is angry. he's the victim here. >> as glad as i am that the justice department and the dc u.s. attorney's office finally decided to do the right thing today, it is an absolute disgrace that they took two years and put my family through this experience for two years before they finally drew the obvious conclusion.

>> tucker: talk about an ingrate. if he was roger stone, mccabe would be in jail right now. instead a celebrate off and oneoff andfawnedover by cabe ne. ought to be great didn't get caught talking to donald trump he would be talking to his lawyer through a glass window. he is not alone. awful lot of people out there who aren't roger stone walking free tonight. jose george accused of trafficking in fentanyl. that's synthetic opioid that has killed tens of thousands of americans and does so every year. police have already linked at least one death to the drugs that he sold. allegedly. he was recently arrested in new york state but police had to arrest him thanks to new york's new bail law even though he was facing life in prison after being charged, he was let go without paying a cent in bail. what's stopping him from trying to flee? nothing. if he doesn't try, he is stupid. that's what life is like in new york now. that's compassion for those who aren't roger stone.

rays khan also not roger stone. ice requested he be handed over for deportation. new york ignored them and let khan go. now he has been arrested for raping and murdering a 92-year-old woman. not just in new york, by the way. across the country cities are slashing the sentences of people who are not roger stone or refusing to incarcerate them entirely. in california proposition 48 has fueled a wave of car break-ins and shoplifting potential gains of the crime outweigh the punishment they are likely to get. in the city of philadelphia we told you this story a few times. district attorney larry krasner refused to prosecute dozens of cases of illegal gun possession. how has that worked out? exactly as you would expect. malik jackson wallace for example was arrested in june of 2018 possessing a gun illegally. sent to a diversificationary program and released. these are the people for gun control for you by the way. keep in mind. in march, you won't be surprised to hear, this he was arrested for, yet, another gun crime and he was

released yet again. after prosecutors asked for no bail in his case because he is not roger stone. finally last june he was arrested for a third time. this time for murder. so, do you see a thread here? what's going on exactly? criminal justice reform is a lot like gun control. it's not about changing the rules for everyone. it's about selectively enforcing them along political line. so, for example, lecture you for hours about gun crime and how afraid they are of guns and they hate guns and guns are bad. but they don't really feel that way. they oppose stop and frisk which saved thousands of lives by taking many thousands of guns off the street. but they are totally opposed to that meanwhile, they are working deep into the night, for example, to disarm law abiding virginians in rural virginia who commit essentially no violent crime and are a threat to no one. huh. they are not for gun control. they are for punishing people who don't vote for

them. same thing is happening here. the left doesn't want criminal justice reform. if they did, they would be on roger stone's side. no. what they really want is to send their political enemies to jail and that's what they're trying to do. former trump campaign advisor michael caputo has watched this whole thing from the beginning and he joins us tonight. it's hard -- michael, thanks so much for joining us, i should say. it's hard not to compare and contrast the treatment of andrew mccabe and roger stone. what do you make of this? >> well, obviously, it's a two-tiered justice system. we have always wondered about that. in the wake of donald trump's election, in 2016 it became more and more obvious that there is one level of justice for hillary clinton, andrew mccabe, james comey, john brennan, the list goes on and another level. >> tucker: jim clapper. >> and another level of justice for roger stone and george papadopoulos. carter page, j.d. gordon. and there is no climb in

between them. the fact of the matter is we know now, just by the things that they have exposed accidentally with the prosecutor's manipulating guideline enhancements to drag it up to 7-9 with the jury foreman revealing she is a lieutenant in the resistance. there is enough corruption, malice and ulterior motive here for the president to pardon roger stone immediately. but, indeed, there is enough corruption, malice and ulterior motive here for a new trial at the very least. but, we know that roger stone is never going to get a fair shake in the district of columbia. no republican ever does. but andrew mccabe, look at him. he is celebrating tonight with his lisa page toasting him on twitter. it makes one just sick. >> tucker: i just want to be clear unlike maybe some people who have my politics, i'm not for sending andy mccabe to prison for nine years. i'm just not. that's fine. and am not for sending a lot

of nonviolent people, criminals, to prison. i just -- but i believe in fairness and equal application of the law. i can't remember the last time a high profile democrat in a politically tinged case went to jail. tony podesta, for example, did the same thing that paul manafort did. they both lobbied together as partners for ukraine. tony op-ed is probably in italy gazing at art collection and paul manafort is where tonight? can you remind me. >> absolutely. federal prison. no sign of when he is going to get out. i will tell you another thing, you look at the likes of hunter biden. no matter what he did in ukraine, you know he lob idea cabinet level officers without a farrah registration. did he far more than paul manafort did. even more than tony podesta did who is probably dining out in d.c. right now. justice system for the republicans and justice system for th democrats.

free roger stone. we have a petition going on there we are well over 130,000 people demanding roger stone's pardon at free roger stone.com. we want the president to really take a look at this and have some compassion on the stone family. what's happened to roger from the very beginning, by the way, tucker, i was interrogated by the same prosecutor aaron zalinsky the way roger stone was. the arrogance he would walk into a room with, i remember a story of him screaming at a female defense attorney "i am the government." and the stories of his bullying go on and on. how he manipulated. >> tucker: people like that should not have power. >> absolutely. the way he manipulated a take roger stone into the 7 to 9 year category is an example of you who they have done everything. it's all done with bad faith, tucker. they did the fisa warrants in bad faith. they did the fusion fbi

dossier in bad faith. they followed, they were following and spying upon aid to the opposing candidate for president in bad faith. everything here has been done in bad faith. and the president needs to consider that when he sees what's going on with roger stone, who, one thing is very clear, roger stone should never have testified before the house of representatives. he never should have. it was a fix from the very beginning. it was a trap from the very beginning. >> tucker: people on the right don't understand. i am on the right so i can say this. you are too. they don't understand -- we don't understand the stakes that the other side is playing for. they don't want to win an argument. they want to crush you. they want to pull you off the internet and cancel your checking account and send to you jail. they mean it. they are not joking at all. watching it now. >> they do. >> tucker: great to see you tonight. thank you so much. >> once again free roger stone.com. thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: i appreciate it.

well, one of cnn's top presidential picks, and this was someone identified by their crack politics team. he is not going to be on the ballot in the fall. the creepy porn lawyer was just convicted on all counts today and we have got details. how did michael bloomberg become the democrats' best shot to beat bernie sanders? let's say the key factor rhymes with sunny. lots of it like 60 billion of it. that's just ahead.

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free media based on relationship with her and she is working in strip clubs. you are exploiting her and you know that why aren't you paying her some of what you are making? >> sir, this is absurd. >> tucker: answer my question. why are you rich and your client is working in seedy strip clubs. >> sir, do you have how much money i have earned? >> tucker: you are on every cable news show and running for president. >> have you no idea. >> tucker: i know you haven't paid your taxes. like so many lawyers you are taking advantage of her. posing as feminist hero. you are exploiter of a woman and you should be ashamed of it. well, i guess the headline is that man is not going to be the democratic nominee. he's not going to be giving the state of the union address next january. creepy porn lawyer, the man you just saw on that tape, came to the end of the road today. prosecutors charged him as you remember with crimes essentially accusing him of extortion. and today he was convicted in federal court in new york on three of those charges. he was convicted of trying

to extort millions of dollars from nike. he could get more than 40 years in prison for that he is facing even more charges in california as well. no novel or summer blockbuster could even compare with the truex plot of creepy porn lawyer. just two years ago like napoleon before wart go a co-also a sis of american public life. cable news producers trembled when they said his name. which we have never said on this show not one time. put him on television almost daily for months on end. they couldn't stop themselves. they loved him. he. >> he is a beast. >> he may be the savior of the repub bling. >> i owe michael avenatti an apology. enough, i have seen you everywhere. what do you have left to say? i was wrong, brother. >> tucker: no, you don't oh michael avenatti an apology, whoever that is. you owe america an apology

for promoting a guy you knew wafilthy at the time but for hating the same person you hate you said he was a hero. you should at knowledge that the guy you made famous is now going to jail for extortion. but we saved all the tape. especially this one. here's jeff zucker's marinette over on cnn telling you the creepy porn lawyer actually is a presidential contender. >> looking at the 2020, one reason why i'm taking you seriously as a contender is because of your presence on cable news. >> i have got 20 years of experience at a very high level as an attorney. i understand how governmental regulations are passed. how laws are passed. how the supreme court works. i have extreme depth of knowledge. >> tucker: oh, the syndrome came into play. cpl fell as quickly as he rose. pretty much the only show calling him exactly what he was a scam artist. someone who specializes in

exploiting the weak. but soon it became clear to everyone. maybe when they learned he tried to defame brett kavanaugh. maybe when they learned that he had stolen money from stormy daniels. stormy daniels, please. even disabled client he apparently defrauded. eventually everybody knew exactly who he was until they didn't know, that is because as recent jeopardy clips show the man who so dominated cable news you couldn't get his face out of your head was swiftly forgotten once he couldn't get back on the cable channel. >> this lawyer's star rose while repping stormy daniels but fell while trying to extort millions from nike in 2019. >> his name quickly forgotten, obviously. tuck author and columnist mark steyn has been following creepy porn lawyer from earliest creepiest days. we are pa glad to have him

back. i never take pleasure i mean this sincerely for anyone going away because prison is horrible. it's not really cpl i'm miffed with. it's the people who promoted him. you have been following this since day one. you and i had the same reaction to this guy are you kidding? how did they fall from him. >> absolutely. how was it that tucker carlson is the only person in the media who could see that this guy was just a creepy porn lawyer while everyone else thought this very week he should be standing on stage somewhere in concord, new hampshire thanking everyone for history victory on primary night because he was supposed to be the magic bullet that would take out donald trump. i mean, you are right. this is actually on the media. and just to go back to what you were talking about earlier, is he a disgusting man and it's absolutely disgraceful as you said. is he wearing like $3,000

suits while poor old stormy was standing on a bar in some sleazy club in virginia hoping there would be enough dollar bills tucked in her garter belt. he tweeted his clients appallingly. to go back to what you were talking about earlier, this is actually the embodiment of what the last three years has been about. he was supposed to get trump out of the oval office and in to jail and, instead, the guy they said was going to be the next president is himself going to jail. the only problem i have with it, is it goes back to the distinction you made. there are those in the club who never pay a price. the mccabes. >> tucker: that's right. >> and hillarys sail from one tv contract to one new book deal onto the next tv contract. this guy was actually just some sleazy chancer as we say in ireland, an undoubted criminal, the most reprehensible kind of guy. but, again, the reason he is

going into jail and is for the reason you were talking about earlier. he is not a member of the club. otherwise, if he were really the guy those rubs at cnn took him for he would be laughing at us the same way that that awful mccabe guy is laughing at us today. >> tucker: have you ever noticed that the people who spend the most time talking about how concerned they are about the world and injustice and, you know, the big picture compassion are always the worst to the people around them? they have a trail of exwives and alienated children and defrauded clients. there's a connection, right? >> yeah. absolutely. i think -- one thing i think i said it at the time he began representing stormy, you have seen this with so many sleazy lawyers before. you know that at the end of it, he is going to be rich and famous. and she is still going to have no money and she is still going to be completely forgotten.

and that actually gets to the heart of what's wrong here. they so hated trump, they bet their chips on this guy. how stupid do you have to be. >> tucker: exactly. >> oh, never mind about biden, never mind about bernie, we have creepy porn lawyer as the best president we never had. that's on steltzer and jon meacham and all those other idiots. rather be hot for stormy daniels than hot for creepy porn lawyer. >> tucker: i totally agree. i do feel a little sorry for cpl. i don't feel sorry at all for the panels on those shows you just mentioned. thank you for that summation. >> thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: so michael bloomberg is a former republican. a billionaire made his money on wall street. he's a guy who is every good idea is now considered racist by modern democrats. so how did he wind up a top

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buttigieg leads him i in the delegate count. joe biden and elizabeth warren should drop out of the race. it's a mess. each contender is dragging the other down. chaotic and chaos like this is a disaster for the democratic party. on the other hand, it's a massive opportunity for tiny billionaires who think they should run the country. people like that view our political system like an aging family company with a dysfunctional board of directors ripe for hostile takeover. that's michael bloomberg's plan. a few months ago it seemed absurd. entering of the race so late he wasn't even on the ballot in first few states. polling in the single digits. didn't even seem like he wanted to run for president. remember? >> it's just not going to happen on a national level for somebody like me starting where i am, unless i was willing to change all my views and go on what cnn called an apology tour. [laughter] joe biden went out and apologized for being male,

over 50, white, beto, or whatever his name is, he has apologized for being born. >> tucker: well, it turns out he was willing to change all of his views. bloomberg has made an awful lot of apologies over the last six months about core beliefs he no longer has. they by the way, it's worked. amazingly. he has risen in the polls week by week. and the real clear politics average he is now third. soon he will be second when he inevitably take as collapsing joe biden campaign. at that point the democratic race could be a contest between a socialist and one of the world's richest men. so how exactly did this happen? well, just the way you would think. the same way bloomberg wound up with 14 houses. he bought it. for months warren and sanders have been complaining about the possibility of that hang. >> the fundamental problem in this country is the power that the billionaire class has over the economic and political life of this

country. >> i don't think any billionaire ought to be able to do it and i don't think people who suck up to billionaires in order to fund their campaigns ought to do it. > the corrupt political system in which billionaires are buying elections. >> he doesn't need people. he only needs bags and bags of money. >> one person, one vote. not billionaires buying elections. >> we have got billionaires who think they can just buy an elections. case in point, michael bloomberg. >> tucker: look, may i not agree with neither one of those candidates. we certainly don't. they do raise important point about a basic vulnerability in our system. it is possible that if someone had enough money he could get much farther than he would otherwise. and that challenges the idea of democracy. so, when sanders and warren said what you just saw them say, it sounded very much like an attack. it turned out nobody really cared. bloomberg is trying buy the election. he is open about that.

he is not hiding it one bit. and it's working. what does that prove, exactly. well, among other things, it proves that in america race politics may be powerful and unfortunately it is. but nothing compared to the power of cash. we know this because beto o'rourke, kamala harris, elizabeth warren, all ran on identity race, gender, sexual orientation and they all failed. bloomberg isn't doing that he is running on his checking account, and it's working. if you had to choose between wokeness and money go with money it matters much more. you should remember that four years ago you often hear that donald trump was trying to 'buy the presidency. if only. in fact trump's campaign was a tiny operation. he didn't put much money in it. hillary clinton dramatically outspent them. democrats outspent republicans two to one. primary outspent even ben carson spent at higher rate before he dropped out. bloomberg occupies an entirely different level. bloomberg is worth almost $62 billion. that's about 17 times richer

than donald trump. bloomberg's net worth is higher than the g.d.p. of seven u.s. states. like actual states in our country. so bloomberg is not just rich. he is incredibly rich. one of the richest people on the planet and he uses that money effectively. in a recent twitter thread that you should read, because it's fascinating. journalist blake zef laid out the way bloomberg operates and is running for president. the first thing mike bloomberg buys with his money is loyalty. in years past bloomberg's political operation spent $2.2 million to elect new jersey democrat micky cheryl. spent the same amount electing congresswoman haley stephens of michigan and another 4.5 million electing congressman harley ruda in california. all three members of congress have since endorsed bloomberg, not surprisingly. ever since his days as mayor of new york, bloomberg has showered millions of dollars on community groups, charities, nonprofits. a lot of gun control organizations. all of them are now totally indebted to him. that's helpful when you are running for president.

you can also buy a lot of talent. and he has, and he spent a lot for it. michael bloomberg's campaign staffers get free mac books, iphones, three catered meals a day salaries two or three times greater than what staffers get in other campaigns. by the way he has promised them he will pay through november whether he wins or not. when you offer benefits that generous, you don't have to be a cynical political operative to be one over. money corrupts almost anyone if there is enough of it. a committed lois slow who badly wants to beat trump will learn to love michael bloomberg, if he is being paid a 6 figure salary to do it and many are. of course, money is good for advertising. that's the traditional use of it in politics. it still doesn't hurt. bloomberg spent millions running an ad, for example, during the super bowl. if you are stuck in a super tuesday state, you will see bloomberg's ads virtually all day on all tv channels. twitter thread. all this works because bloomberg and the people around him aren't stupid. not at all. they are smart. he isn't working is the same

useless consultants who have killed other campaigns. most consultants are stupid and overpaid. his aren't. quote: mike's team has a rare combination. maybe even unprecedented in the u.s. politics. unlimited money, elite intelligence. and machiavellian ethics. they know he has on and republican past. they also know democrats hate trump. that's when where the campaign turns all its focus. this one of the biggest donors mike as a loyal democrat who wants to see trump, his old golf buddy lose. so far voters are lapping it up. oh, it's scary when you think about it actually. so dishonest. some voters lap it up anyway there are a few holdouts. bernie sanders is still the frontrunner there are democrats, the ones who aren't being paid, who don't want to see their party sold to the single richest man on wall street. a lot of other normal americans have both sides looking on in horror as they watch a major party's nomination go to the highest bidder. it's horrifying when you think of it.

it's not democracy. bernie sanders is wrong about a lot. he is absolutely right about that. it's not democracy. but that doesn't mean it doesn't work. it does. seth barron is an associate editor at city journal. he joins us tonight. seth, thanks for coming on. >> hi, tucker. >> tucker: i have had forgotten until the other day that bloomberg essentially bought a third term as mayor. previous mayors weren't allowed to run for a third term. >> well, there had been three-term mayors there was term limits imposed but bloomberg convinced the city council to overturn the referendum that had established it and give him and them a third term. yeah, bloomberg, when he was mayor, he was an effective mayor. i'm not going to say he wasn't. >> tucker: yes, i know. >> he bought pliability from arts organizations, social service organizations. activist groups. by giving them a lot of money. i mean, he gave al sharpton's group national action network hundreds of thousands of dollars.

and, you know, over the course of his term, al sharpton pretty much -- bloomberg said al sharpton has been a calming influence in new york city. which is not something that you usually think of when you think of al sharpton, but, in fact, under bloomberg's term, al sharpton, you know, basically kept a lid on protests and things like that. so it was an effective strategy to run the city. i don't know how well that translates to a national stage. the new york city very low electoral turnout and not that many people vote on a national level. if you have, you know, 10 million rabid socialists, it might be hard to convince them that this is the right way to go. >> tucker: yeah. might be. you would have to buy a lot of al sharptons to do it. that's fascinating. i didn't know that calming influence. amazing. seth barron. great to see i tonight. thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: one reason bloomberg is doing pretty well is the steady disintegrations of joe biden. biden finished fourth in

iowa and fifth in the state of new hampshire. now even hecklers demanding he drop out. [chanting drop out joe] >> skip nevada, skip south carolina. just go home early. >> tucker: hecklers on mike bloomberg's payroll? i have no idea. if if there aren't much richer allies are putting pressure on biden to leave the race that is a scoop, a new report from fox business senior correspondent charlie gasparino we are happy to have on. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: explain your scoop. >> simply. this. i speak to a lot of biden supporters on wall street. my producer lydia moynahan my huge assist in this we spoke to him and asked him what's going on with the campaign post iowa and post new hampshire and it was simply. this they were saying listen, we are almost out. if he doesn't turn it around quick, we are moving out. we are going to support bloomberg. obviously bloomberg doesn't need their money but he does like their moral support and

moral asituation. and you know we are about to leave. they are basically saying this, tucker. this thing is over -- particularly if he doesn't do well in south carolina. and they are losing confidence in him. a lot of them are saying he should just leave now so we can just pick up the pieces and save what they believe is a moderate ring of the establishment wing of the party. because joe biden cannot keep up with bernie sanders. i mean, it's unbelievable that bernie sanders. they are about the same age. when you see them on tv he is so energetic. i don't agree with anything he says. i can see how he rouses up the base. you don't get that out of biden right now. and these guys are saying that and they mean a lot to biden because if biden doesn't have money, you know, he is not going to make it to super tuesday. he is that low in cash. last night he had two fundraisers. they thought they were going to get a million. we should point out fundraiser as lot of people locked in preiowa when he was still the frontrunner. he got less than a million. he got about 800,000.

so, you know, you could already see the wheels coming off. this and that's essentially the story right now. bloomberg is encroaching on becoming that moderate. taking over that moderate wing. a lot can happen. can he surprise us in nevada. biden okay he can kill it in south carolina and somehow get a second life. but, people are betting against that right now. >> tucker: it sounds like that is a really telling story. thank you for telling it on this show. we appreciate it. charlie gasparino. well, the coronavirus turns out to be so infectious it may have penetrated even north korea. but north koreans have a particularly bloody way of keeping that virus in check. we will tell what you they are doing in response to it. also democrats have a plan to foreign felons back into this country at your expense and maybe into your neighborhoods. actorring secretary of dhs is here to respond. adam carolla is back. great interview as always. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪

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>> tucker: chinese coronavirus continues to spread tonight. friday brought another 5,000 confirmed cases in china official numbers. that includes at least 139 new deaths. 1700 healthcare workers have been infected themselves, hindering efforts to stop the disease. fortunately there is still only 15 confirmed cases in this country. last night the director for centers for disease control said the virus will likely be a problem for months if

not years and eventually have a sustained presence here. many people i media ignoring the crisis or down playing it. one country is taking radical measures to keep the disease in check. north korea. north korean government claims it's not seen a single case of coronavirus according to south korean train outlet train official broke quarantine visiting a bathhouse from returning from china. his penalty? execution. on this show we told you a had the a lot about the new way forward act. a bill co-sponsored by more than sitting house democrats completely remake america's immigration system in a country itself for the sake of protecting foreign-born criminals. violent felons could not be deported back to their home countries unless they received at least a five year sentence. even then a judge could owes autoly override that you would have to pay to fly deported criminals back into the united states to resume living here. so what would this mean for america?

nobody has a clearer picture of that than chad wolf, acting secretary of homeland security. he joins us. so have you read this legislation. you are familiar with it. if it became law, what would happen to the country? >> well, it's very dangerous. i would say it completely guts our immigration enforcement system that we have in place. it also is just from a pure legality perspective it just guts the rule of law. envision a world where individuals no longer have to wait in line for visas. they can come across the border to no longer accurately to do that. they can then come into the system. we can't deport them. because we can't hold people essentially abolishes ice. then on top of all of that going back 25 years we then have to find folks. bring them back into the country. re-litigate immigration proceedings. so if you are looking for a way to abolish our immigration system. abolish ice. and just rewrite our

immigration code completely. this would be the legislation for you. >> tucker: in effect abolishing the country. tell me the thinking behind. this why would anyone want the u.s. government to affirmatively seek out foreign criminals and import them into the country? >> well, we have seen this over the last several years in a number of pieces of legislation. and i think the idea here is that somehow even though they go through due process and legitimate order from immigration judge they they have no right to be here and deported home somehow that's not good enough. somehow we have stacked the deck against them. you need to bring them back re-litigate them. provide them attorneys at government expense. so there is a theory here that somehow the deck is stacked against these individuals when that's not the case at all. they have full due process. they go through the immigration system like everyone else. at the end of the day, if the judge and immigration judge declares that they have no legal right to be here and orders them

deported, that's what the men and women of ice do, carry out legal immigration orders and deport individuals. and so i think there is a group of individuals who say we don't like that. we don't like the rule of law. and we would like to rewrite it. >> tucker: we want to pay to bring the worse possible people into the country. it's a kind of punishment meemeted out against america. would you be concerned about the country. >> absolutely. not so sure i'm concerned about it becoming law. a lot of steps would have to occur between then and now and obviously president trump would never sign anything like this into law. but, should it become law? yes, absolutely. it would be very devastating to not only the department odepartmentof homeland security, cbp and whole immigration mission at the department. very dangerous for our country. dangerous for our communities. again, you would have hardened criminals being able to come into the country illegally. we would have no ability to enforce that law and deport them and so basically your sanctuary city policy that we have in effect around the country in several

jurisdictions become nationwide. that may be the end result at the end of the day. >> boy, this is the kind of thing you do to a country you hate and clearly, clearly they do. mr. secretary, thanks so much for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> tucker: so ratings for the oscars plunged to a record low last week. suggests something really disturbing is happening in washington. the situation is worse than we have ever seen it. adam carolla lives out there is back for a second appearance this week to diagnose exactly what it is. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪

♪ >> tucker: so did you enjoy the oscars this year? probably not. tv ratings for the academy awards were the lowest ever this year with a 20% drop over last year's show. one possible explanation for this maybe americans remembered how unbearablably political and pedantic last year's oscars were and decided not to watch this year. the people who do this, will the actors ever learn anything and back off a little bit? we recently asked that question to comedian and podcast host adam corolla about hollywood's political turn. he lives there. this is what he said. >> tucker: so you live here, ricky gervais shows up at the golden globes and lacerates the people in the room. >> if you win. come up, accept your little

award thank your agent and your god and [bleep] >> what did you think of it was the effect of it if any. >> it was funny because it had a little precursor to that when i did the alec baldwin roast on comedy central a few months ago. >> comedians need a place where they can be offensive without your [bleep] fake outrage. [cheers] >> #heroes. >> and i was writing some jokes and jimmy kimmel said you should do a little soliloquy at the end of the all woke and no joke culture and sort of tell them to get over it. and i did a little piece on it at the end of the comedy central alec baldwin roast. >> you already ruined the oscars. [laughter] you are all woke and no joke. >> so i was sort of thinking about it. >> tucker: how did that go over by the way when you did it? >> it's funny. it always goes over and then everybody goes back to it. like if you did a corporate event for lawyers, and you

said oh, lawyers, all of them have shysters who cheat on their wives. everyone would laugh. but i don't know why you are calling them that. you know what i'm saying? they wouldn't stop being sheisters who cheat on their wife. >> they all stop clapping and laughing. >> this is how [bleep]ed up hollywood is. bruce jenner announces is he transitions and everybody applauds it. when they find out he is a republican, they are outraged. which is an interesting thing. i don't think it would work that way for tuna fishermen. >> tucker: no. you would get harpoon through your chest. i love what ricky gervais said. i said dr. drew always said to me when is the pendulum going to start swinging back. we are so politically

correct. everyone is woke. getting everyone fired for the thought police are out there. i said the comedians. the comedians at this point tip of the spear. the comedians are going to bring the pendulum back. ricky gervais did a great job of the tip of comedian i didn't care spear of bringing us back. >> if isis started a streaming service you would call your agent, wouldn't you? >> dan chapelle unapologetic. the comedians, i believe, are going to be the group that usher us back towards sanity. >> tucker: i hope that's right. >> that would be nice. >> tucker: amen. thank you. >> sure. >> tucker: well, a quick public service announcement, the u.s. space force, which is real, is asking for public input on what it should call its members, its ranks, its unit. do you have any judged. stageants? we would love to hear your ideas. go to the tucker carlson

facebook page and share with us. be back monday 8:00 p.m. the show that's the sworn enemy 6 lying pomposity group think. sean hannity takes over. have a great weekend with the ones you love. ♪ >> sean: welcome to hannity. we begin tonight a fox news alert. big, breaking positive developments to share surrounding the deep state. this is very detailed. pay close attention. i have to unpeal the layers of this onion. first, i have to admit the mccabe news on the declination of prosecution is frustrating especially when the ig had identified four separate incidents of lack of candor. that means lying. seems as i said last night only conservatives they seem to get punished for that in today's america. now, what we know is this is the single biggest abuse of power scandal, corruption scandal in modern american history. and it is playing out before our very eyes. we now see that the corruption at the highest